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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 0900 GMT, Aug. 31

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Argentine media on Tuesday spotlighted China's role as the host of the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) Summit, as President Mauricio Macri said he would take the message that his country was ready "to work together" with fellow members of the bloc.

Just hours before his departure, Macri told reporters he would attend the Sept. 4-5 gathering in Hangzhou "with humility." (Argentine-China-G20)

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UNITED NATIONS -- A senior UN official told Xinhua that thanks to China's presidency, the upcoming summit of the Group of 20 (G20) is expected to play a great role in promoting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Targets (SDGs), a blueprint for the global development efforts for the years up to 2030.

Wu Hongbo, the UN under-secretary-general for the economic and social affairs, said in a recent interview with Xinhua that "during the current G20 presidency, China has made sure that the G20 aligns its work with the new UN development agenda, putting the issue of development in a prominent place in the global macro policy framework for the first time in G20 history." (UN-China-G20)

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BEIJING -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Kyrgyz counterpart, Erlan Abdyldaev, on Tuesday discussed in a phone conversation the terrorist attack against the Chinese Embassy to Kyrgyzstan and pledged closer cooperation in the fight against terrorism.

Abdyldaev said the Kyrgyz side condemned the suicide attack "in the strongest terms," and that on behalf of the Kyrgyz leaders, he conveyed sympathy to the Chinese embassy and those injured in the attack. (Kyrgyzstan-China)

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SYDNEY -- China will escape the middle income trap over time as it deals with the "hangover" of stimulus measures introduced to combat the global financial crisis, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating said.

China is currently unwinding overcapacity in the industrial sector, funding inventories and dealing with the overleveraging that came out of the fiscal stimulus post the global financial crisis but it's a balancing act, Keating, who is an advisor to the China Development Bank, told an audience at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) on Tuesday night. (Australia-China)

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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodian police raided a rented apartment building in southeastern Phnom Penh on Tuesday and netted 64 Chinese nationals, including eight women, for allegedly involving in a telephone scam, an immigration police official said.

The initial information shows that 52 suspects are from the Chinese mainland and 12 from China's Taiwan region, Major General Ouk Hai Seila, director of the investigation and procedure department at the General Department of Immigration, said, adding that a number of telephones and laptops were seized as evidence. (Cambodia-China) Endi